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Saturday, July 12, 2025

Police briefed after threats to cops, Deputy Prison Commissioner

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Shane Superville
412 days ago
20240526

Shane Su­perville

Po­lice from var­i­ous op­er­a­tional and in­tel­li­gence units have been briefed af­ter threats were made against po­lice of­fi­cers and a Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons.

Sources said that a voice note cir­cu­lat­ed on What­sApp be­tween Fri­day and Sat­ur­day. The per­son made threats to po­lice of­fi­cers from mem­bers of the Re­sis­tance gang.

The voice notes come in the wake of four men be­ing killed by po­lice in Up­per St Michael's Road, off St John's Road, St Au­gus­tine, on Thurs­day. 

The men are be­lieved to have been in­volved in the kid­nap­ping of dou­bles ven­dor An­isha Ho­sein-Singh, last week.

In­tel­li­gence sources con­firmed a meet­ing was held on Sat­ur­day to dis­cuss the threat to po­lice of­fi­cers and the in­flu­ence of the Re­sis­tance gang.

The source not­ed that while there was no cred­i­ble in­for­ma­tion to sug­gest the threats would de­vel­op in­to at­tacks on po­lice, of­fi­cers were still ad­vised to be on alert as pa­trols and ex­er­cis­es in and around the St Au­gus­tine and Tu­na­puna would be es­ca­lat­ed. 

The source said, "There have been sit­u­a­tions in the past where crim­i­nals have made very se­ri­ous, cred­i­ble threats to the lives of po­lice of­fi­cers and it came to our at­ten­tion. How­ev­er, in the af­ter­math of every fa­tal po­lice shoot­ing there is al­ways a threat or a mum­bling some­where about re­tal­i­at­ing against the po­lice. We con­tin­ue to take every in­ci­dent se­ri­ous­ly, but we are not aware of any ma­jor de­vel­op­ments that sug­gests an im­mi­nent threat is un­der­way."

The of­fi­cer said the Re­sis­tance Gang has es­tab­lished ter­ri­to­ries in  St John's Road, St Au­gus­tine, Tu­na­puna, Arou­ca and parts of Ari­ma. 

In an­oth­er sit­u­a­tion, a video threat­en­ing Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons Car­los Cor­raspe was al­so cir­cu­lat­ed on so­cial me­dia.

In the video Cor­raspe's name was seen writ­ten on a piece of pa­per sur­round­ed by As­sault ri­fles.

Al­so writ­ten on the pa­per be­neath Cor­raspe's name were the words, 'Don't play.'

Po­lice con­firmed that the mat­ter was be­ing in­ves­ti­gat­ed as of­fi­cers of the po­lice Cy­ber Crime and So­cial Me­dia Unit were try­ing to find clues on the ori­gin.

It is un­clear if the threat al­so orig­i­nat­ed from the Re­sis­tance Gang.

Con­tact­ed for com­ment pres­i­dent of the Prison Of­fi­cers As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) Ger­ard Gor­don said while the video high­light­ed the dan­ger prison of­fi­cers faced, it was not par­tic­u­lar­ly sur­pris­ing.

He said since the video sur­faced, prison of­fi­cers did not seem to be par­tic­u­lar­ly un­set­tled by it.

"We are not par­tic­u­lar­ly more con­cerned than we al­ready are as it re­lates to the safe­ty of our mem­bers and oth­er of­fi­cers," Gor­don said. "To be very hon­est, threats are ba­si­cal­ly al­most a dai­ly oc­cur­rence in the life of a prison of­fi­cer.  It's a con­stant con­cern that prison of­fi­cers have but it's al­so the con­stant en­vi­ron­ment we face."

Gor­don said he hoped those re­spon­si­ble for threat­en­ing prison of­fi­cers would be found and brought to jus­tice.

Con­tact­ed for com­ment on Sun­day, Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er De­op­er­sad Ra­moutar said he was aware of the video but could not of­fer any more in­for­ma­tion.

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